Masheikh Scytale
Banned
Must be the hangover.
Some are just politically incorrect.
Things happens.
Must be the hangover.
Sorry Scytale, I should have responded nicer. I guess what I'm trying to say is that, if your thinking that there is something left out in the Rift to find, you might be disappointed. If you think that there is still a narrative arc worth pursuing then, yeah, I think you're right.
Nice, isn't it ?
Who didn't think he found the Marvel of the Milky Way when, young explorer, he came across this star diadem ?
Edit: keep going in the same direction, looking "up" ... soon you'll see another interesting one, near the roof of the Galaxy.
Cool ! Don't hesitate to share with us !It's very interesting around here, but it's all been scanned, and I prefer to be first, so I've pointed my ship clockwise and hit the "thataway" button.
The Formidine Rift was never about some deep "mystery". It was about about the narrative, the last hidden chapter of Elite: Reclamation. That chapter just grew into something bigger: a book of it's own. It's kind of like one of those old "Grunge Rock" CDs from the early 90's where they stuck a hidden track at the end that you could hear if you kept listening through silence after the last official track on the CD for 20 or 30 minutes. It was always "just" and Easter Egg. After CMDR Cly discovered Jaques sooner then Frontier anticipated some of that content got rolled into the Formidine Rift and the Rift became a contingency plan to allow Frontier to continue to expand on the story line of "The Missing".
CoR's involvement wasn't because Drew or Frontier simply because they got picked randomly from some hat from all the other player groups. CoR was one of the only, and first, groups founded on the principle of respecting the Lore. One of the chief questions CoR used to ask (still asks?) prospective members is "what Elite related novels or stories have you read?" They're basically a book club for Elite fans and much of their discussions are about the literature. Unlike most of us, who thought the Rift was a Rubik's Cube CoR understood that they were participating in a story like improvisational actors on a stage.
So, I am back to Quince to make vile $$$ and get rrrich !
That's what this game seems to be about, after all ..
All this currently makes me think that the whole Formidine Rift mystery always has been just a tiny bit of a much bigger story arc/concept/idea.
If you look at Reclamation and the flow of the narrative you will notice one interruption and one addition that doesn't make any sense - the Formidine Rift. For me, by just looking at the story of the book, it's superfluous text in a novel without anything superfluous. It sticks out like a sour thumb.
After reading "And here the wheel" and "Elite: Legacy" I noticed that the parts of Reclamation that felt superfluous actually fitted in the overall theme of those three books.
As if those two paragraphs in Reclamation where added to the story to create a connection to the other books - or a small nod to the "secret lore source book, masterplan" the authors got from FD.
Interestingly the two paragraphs in Reclamation sparked the imagination of players more than the more obvious things in "And here the wheel".
All this currently makes me think that the whole Formidine Rift mystery always has been just a tiny bit of a much bigger story arc/concept/idea.
I have been under that impression ever since i saw the Teorge Logs. Something big is coming that scares the sheep of whoever the Shepard is pulling the strings behind the empire and federation. Thargoids? Whatever alien race is in the flower ships? Whatever they were running from could already be here, that's why there is no attempt to silence or cover up the dynasty plan any longer.
That's why I'm currently on the far end of the RR line. I figure if the stuff hits the fan I can try supercruising to Andromeda....better get that hypersleep thing working
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All this currently makes me think that the whole Formidine Rift mystery always has been just a tiny bit of a much bigger story arc/concept/idea.
Millerport is in lockdown, sorry.
Correct. The rift is no longer a separate mystery. It was a finger pointing at things to come.
Now these things are comming.
Hadn't you heard? That's where they are coming from. You are now the galaxy's first line of defence and target 1 for the alien invaders.
"We'll always have Paris", err...I mean Raxxla.